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A Croaking Ode to the Haubarg by the Eiderstedter Nachtigall
Haubargs . Cathedral-like farmsteads with hipped roofs soaring up to twenty meters high, icons of the Eiderstedt peninsula in the region...
Hans Faber
Jul 23, 202330 min read


Late Little Prayers at the Lorelei Rock. Reckless Rhine Skippers in Distress
On the west bank of the mighty River Rhine, halfway between the cities of Koblenz and Mainz, lies the town of Sankt Goar. Named after...
Hans Faber
Oct 25, 202211 min read


To the end where it all began: ribbon Ribe in Jutland
Let’s go to the omega. To the end of the Frisia Coast Trail . To Ribe in southern Jutland, Denmark. The oldest town in Scandinavia. A...
Hans Faber
May 7, 202215 min read


Happy Hunting Grounds in the Arctic
If you want to find out who is responsible for killing the whale, the Frisia Coast Trail area is the prime spot to look. When you stop...
Hans Faber
Apr 24, 202160 min read


History is written by the victors—a story of the credits
New York City, the Capital of the World. They call it a lot of things: Gotham, the Big Apple, the Empire City, Modern Gomorrah, even...
Hans Faber
Feb 10, 202135 min read


Merciless Medieval Merchants and Slavers
The earliest evidence of Frisian merchants—or kāpmon in the Old Frisian language—engaging in the slave trade dates back to the first...
Hans Faber
Jun 19, 202011 min read


The Batwing Doors of Dorestad. A Two-Way Gateway of Trade and Power
Is the seaport Maasvlakte the gateway to north-western Europe? No? How about Europoort? Still no? What about the Botlek port area? Or the...
Hans Faber
Apr 13, 202016 min read


The United Frisian Emirates and Black Peat. How Holland became Dutch
In this blog post, we will explain that the Frisian lands might as well be named the United Frisian Emirates. Of course, there are some...
Hans Faber
May 12, 201929 min read


Haute Couture From the Salt Marshes
It was not the city of Parisius ('Paris'). Nor that of Londinium ('London'). Believe it or not, the early-medieval center for expensive...
Hans Faber
Jun 1, 201818 min read


Porcupines Bore U.S. Bucks. The Birth of Economic Liberalism
On May 5th, 2018, it was exactly two centuries since Karl Marx was born. When the good man published the first volume of Das Kapital in...
Hans Faber
Jan 19, 201837 min read


In Debt to the Beastly Westfrisians
This blog post is about the town of Medemblik—the grande dame of the Westfriesland region in the province of Noord Holland in the...
Hans Faber
Dec 13, 201731 min read


Clinton: "I did not have financial relations with that village"
On May 28, 2011 Bill Clinton held a speech in Achlum. The village has some 600 inhabitants. Looks like a small audience to me. What was...

Frans Riemersma
Aug 24, 20173 min read
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